It's a wooden box in the size of 40 cm X 30 cm I first painted the box with white acrylic paint then I build layers by layers with several colours using my fingers, baby wipe and stencils until I get the results that I wanted. When Iwashappy with the resultsI drew the dragonflies withblack PoscaPen. Then I used a baby wipe and my fingers dipped in gesso, some pink and some turquoise acrylic paint and painted around the dragonflies.

I must admit that I was inspired by the great artist Nika Rouss (nikainwonderland) when I made this.
I thought it became absolutly georgeous. What do you think?

fredag 22. januar 2016

Today I want to tell you about a great adventure I was on last weekend. I was in Oslo and visit a new friend, Liven and her friend Mona who live near by. We became acquainted through a creative art Facebook group. How cool is that!!? Me, visiting someone a whole weekend which was totally unknown until that weekend...
We had a great time - a hole weekend in her atelier just having fun with Paint, Stencils, Gelliplate, Stamps, old newspapers, old cabin guest books etc. I even slept in the atelier ☺LoL

Liven in her atelier

Me reading a newspaper, Aftenposten, from 29. april 1940...

Atelier and my bed for the weekend

And here is the creative women

And of course I have to show you some of the amazing art that was made during the weekend:

fredag 8. januar 2016

Sometimeswhen the days are the darkest, I'm veryhappy that Ihavemyhobby,andthat I am anartjournalist.Then Idisappearinto my roomandPaint, Stamp and drawme a betterday. I can expressmy feelingsthrough the artanddo not have torelate topeople who may notunderstandandjust makesmy dayworse....

Ihave a disease thatisvery difficult to understand.Evenforme.Iwas told tolive with itandnot fight it.It is very difficult, but I try. I realy try.

This pageI madeyesterday when Isuddenlycameto thinkthat;Iwant to beloved,Iwant tobe usefulandnot leastI want to live.Thiswas the result ofmy thoughtsyesterday:

torsdag 7. januar 2016

I am finaly back in my Craft room after a looong holiday ☺ I am so ready for doing some art no so I'm just starting by showing you my latest artwork:

This I made on my Gelli Plate, and I would like to show you step by step how I did this:

1. Take your Gel Printing Plate, cover some space with Delipaper. If you don't have Delipaper like me, you can use bakingpaper from your Kitchen.

2. Roll on acrylic paint with one or two colors. I've used two colors here; green and yellow

3. Find some stamps you want to use. I've used stamps from Rubber Dance.

4. Stamp all over your Gelli plate with different colors and different stamps.

5. Let it all dry. It is very important that it is all completely dry. This technique willnot work if the paint is still wet.

6. Take your package tape and tape side by side all over your Gelli plate. Start at the top of your plate and tape all the way down. Make shore you're not overlapping.

7. Pull the tape of and then turn the backside up on your workingtable and ad some Metal Leaf in silver, gold or copper here and there on the tape where there is no paint. Don't use to much of the leaf, just a tiny bit here and there.

8. Ad colours on the open space where it's still sticky with Pan Pastel or Perfect Pearls with a brush. Use different color and different media on each strip for variation.

9. Clean your brush betwen the layers on a silicon mat.

Here is the final results, strips in beautiful bright colours and patterns. It's much more colorful and bright in reality. Try it and you will see ☺

Youmight usethese colorfulglossy strips topasteinyourArtJournalas a window with a frame, like I will do.

And with this colourful beauty I'm joining the fun at:Scrapiness - Utfordring #11: Mixed Media Desember/Januar - Using a lot of media like Gelli Plate, Tape, stamps, Paint, inks, Perfect Pearls, Pan Pastel and Bakingpaper.Anything but cute - Challenge #9 - Ring out the Old, Bring in the New - My New is a New technique, using Package Tape as a Canvas, Metal Leaf and Bakingpaper.

All the stamps I've been used is from Rubber Dance. If you want to buy some stamps from Rubber Dance remember to use the code Anita2016 and you will get 15 % of on your purchase.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and that you come back soon. Please leave me a comment, I very much appriciate it!

It's not justforcard making,youcan also use those stampsinartJournalas I havedone,and you can use themon canvas, on Gelli Plateand evenonclay.Iwillsoonshow you something I have made of clay and Rubber Stamps. Make shore to stay tuned ☺

Om meg

Bergen, Norway.
Hello, my name is Anita, also known as Niti. With my blog I want to inspire others to do art. Art is therapy for both body and soul ♥ Hope you will visit me on my blog sometimes for inspirations and creative enthusiasm. You are more than welcome ♥ You can also follow me on Instagram as @nitien